Creepy Crawlers!

Remember Creepy Crawlers? Those rubbery, multi-colored bugs?

In our 2nd grade classroom swap meets, they were the gold standard, man. 

I traded some for a set of real spurs (we had just gotten a horse and I wanted to be a cowboy!) 

I still have a vintage Creepy Crawler oven. I should make some for Halloween, but as you'll see in the photos, I have plenty of the live version around here...

Multi-colored at that!

I wish I still had the spurs. What did I do with them? 

Probably traded them for more creepy crawlers...

Sigh.

(Sorry there were so many of that guy, but I just love him! He's a combination of all of the dragonflies I've photographed this year. Amazing! I just love looking at him!)

Wing and Blossom... peeking, posing, proliferating

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. 

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. 

Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. 

And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Peeking...


One of the visitors to our feeders... not as shy as the cardinals.

Posing...


A blue dragonfly finally visited Long Hollow... 
...he graciously, patiently posed for me.

Proliferating...


My mysterious, wild, blooming-like-crazy purple flowers - if anyone knows what they are, please tell me!
They're already starting to fade into their reddish foliage...
...very autumn-like and beautiful itself...
so I apologize in advance if the balance of my photos tip in their favor.
It's so I can remember them when they're gone.
(And also because it's easier to share them all than to decide which ones not to share.)

Posing for the Paparazzi

Dragonfly dancers.

Dashes of color, resting

Before the next show.

(Thanks to Tammy Lee Bradley for the photo/haiku idea! Check out her Fresh Guava Haiku)